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2009

Holiday Gift Guide

This Holiday Season, Find unique, eco-friendly gifts at the Natural History Family of Museums! Sarah Ardalani at the Los Angeles Times writes, “in addition to educating greater Los Angeles about various bug species, prehistoric and mammal life, the Natural History Museum is now offering a slew of cool, unconventional gifts just in time for the holidays.”View PDF >View Los Angeles Times link >

New Website

NHM Next

The 1913 Building is the Museum’s heart and soul: It’s the original component of our now sprawling structure, and housed our first precious collections. After two years of renovation, the Beaux-Arts gem reopened this year, catching the attention of news outlets and architecture trade press.View PDF >

The Eagle Lands Again

When the Museum opened in 1913, a six-foot terra cotta eagle perched atop its entrance. But after damage in a 1920 earthquake, it had to come down. Using Museum archival records and a little artistic imagination, a new statue was created.View PDF >View Los Angeles Times article >

Thomas the T. rex

NHM’s Thomas the T. rex Lab is a specially designed workroom where visitors may watch the actual work of paleontologists as they prepare and assemble the fossils of a 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed Thomas